>>Waiting for Godot? .NET is hardly unproven technology any more. It has been around for over 10 years, through several major versions, and is still being improved aggressively. In the software development world it is as mainstream as it gets.
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>In the US perhaps, but worldwide Java certainly is more mainstream.
>Pure C/C++ might also surpass Dotnet, although one could argue that Dotnet allows that as well.

All java & C , some PHP around here.